Recent content by DavidofMersea

Now I think of it, my next door neighbour, who is a bit of an ornithologist, called them "Rooks". There are thousands of them, mostly flying in V formation, and they take well over an hour to go past my house on Mersea beach every evening at dusk

There is another bird spectical you may have missed. There are thousands of crows/rooks (I think) that roost in Layer, and in the Summer early mornings they all fly along the Blackwater to East Mersea/St Osyth, and at dusk they all fly back to Layer

I have seen similar pictures of seals in boats, but how do they get there? Do they shoot up from the depths and land in/on the boat?

to stop unauthorized people using it ...... simples

As in ScuttleBUTT. I thought so, thanks for the confirmation

SWMBO wants to know, what is a "Butt" as in Butt & Oyster

Which class of cat?

The heading for this thread is"RIP Bob Fisher in Scuttlebutt ", did BF post on here?

Anyway, where is this underpass? and how do you sail in a flooded underpass?

Bob fisher came from Brightlingsea and later moved to the south coast I don't think there is a Chelmsford underpass off the A27. Surely the A27 is south of the Thames , nowhere near chelmsford

Sounds like BF, but a Mirror dinghy? The slowest boat I ever knew BF to sail was a Hornet

That depends on the PoA given

There were other times when mud was dumped near the entrance to the Tollesbury channel. Did the packing shed people pay for the spoil? I thought the spoil was just being dumped near the Tollesbury channel, and the Packing shed committee asked for it to be dumped on the southern end of Packing...

They come and dump at Mersea sometimes, although I have not seen them for a couple of years